Foreground Lore

In private development

Know your own game. Foreground Lore by Studio Foreground reads an RPG Maker MZ project and turns it into a structured record of its story logic. You can see which events set which switches, what depends on what, and where your plugins collide.

The Foreground Lore plugin registry. The sidebar lists the project's plugins; the main panel lists one plugin's commands with their arguments, and its plugin parameters with types and defaults.

A map of your project's story logic

A large RPG Maker project spreads its story across hundreds of events, switches and variables. Foreground Lore scans the project data and records:

Every switch, variable and named record: actors, items, skills, equipment, enemies and states, with where each one is used
The links between them: which events set a switch, which require it, which branch on it, which call a common event, which move the player to another map and which trigger automatically
Key items: items whose use runs story events
An automatic story chain: events that run in sequence on their own, traced into one outline

The result is a local database that the other Foreground tools, and your own scripts, can query.

Plugin conflict detection

Plugins in an MZ project can quietly overwrite each other. Foreground Lore builds a registry of every plugin in the project and flags four kinds of collision:

two plugins overriding the same engine function
plugin commands with the same name
text escape codes that clash
duplicate entries in the plugin list

The Foreground Lore conflicts view, listing one flagged collision: two plugins that register a command with the same name, marked as informational.

The canon behind Foreground Script

Foreground Script reads Foreground Lore's scan to know your game's facts: its switches, variables, events and story pages. When it helps you write a new scene, the canon it draws on comes from your actual project, not from a guess. See Foreground Script.

Readable reports

Lore exports its records as self-contained web pages, such as a plugin reference listing every command, parameter and conflict.

In private development

Proprietary software. The scanning, the database and the conflict checks work today. AI-written story summaries of characters, places and plot arcs, and an editable story flowchart built from them, are in development. See the roadmap.

Interested in Foreground Lore? Contact us.